Word: worriment
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...opening two lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery partiality of the worriment." Strip Flipper. OuLiPo's only American, Harry Mathews, has contributed "perverbs"-combined proverbs permuted until the mind is dizzied and the meaning transmogrified: "Every cloud is another man's poison"; "The road to Hell is paved with rolling stones." Poet Jacques Bens writes "irrational sonnets" based...
...newfangled field of psychiatry and uncovers aberrations by the dozen in the minds of its citizens. His best friend, for example, Ronald Reagan, is being driven mad by morbid reflection on the loss of his legs. And Reagan's former fiance is going mad too, which causes no little worriment to her father, who is a sadistic doctor, and to her mother, who is a vengeful religious fanatic. And then there is another doctor, Claude Rains, a misanthrope who keeps daughter Betty Field from all human association. Miss Fields overacts this simple part so elaborately that it becomes embarrassing...
...roughly with "has a canoe")-rippled discreetly at the piano. Dr. Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his encore, peered at the watch again, retired. The refugee children stood to get about...
...watched, Judge Yule weeded out the entries to the four finalists: two from Purdue University, "Loyal Alumnus III" and "College Maid"; the University of Alberta's "Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that...
...their class nine experience shown any unusual batting strength. The need of developing batters is so universally recognized that the greater part of the time in the cage will be devoted to that work. Squads of six are putting in an hour's practice daily. Another cause of worriment is the lack of pitchers. Heyworth is not expected to develop strength enough to relieve Stagg, and the college is being searched for material. At this time Yale's main reliance for success seems to lie in the battery - Stagg and Dann - with a prospect of dropping to third or fourth...
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